File::Find let's you specify "prune" which enables or disables traversal. If you know your last checkpoint is /mnt/myhome/stuff/junk you can pattern match your file path, and turn off traversal until you get a match. (you may have to roll up your checkpoint a little if the target has been deleted in the interim).

That'll - hopefully - give me a restartable find. Being able to "skip head" in future (and thus distribute processing) may require a first pass, and tracking multiple checkpoints.

Thinking about it, some sort of start/finish and some way of compensating for "drift". But one checkpoint every 100k files takes a huge list down to merely large. (but still doesn't help your first pass, unless you can take some wild guesses for initial checkpoints and do that same drift compensation.)

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
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